By Maxine Phillips — 2015
Barber spreads a gospel of witness and resistance in the tradition of civil rights and anti-war leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Sloane Coffin. . .
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In a very special interview, Satish Kumar shares his greatest adventure, inspiration and how we can find connection with the Earth.
“I’m not going to make a lot of empty campaign promises,” writes Parker J. Palmer, “but I promise you this: As your president, I will not behave like a human wrecking ball. My top priority will be to protect and preserve ALL that is fragile.”
For fifty-plus years, Joanna Macy has been helping us to face the Earth’s urgent and deepening crisis, to look without turning away, and to engage.
At the first-ever gathering of Buddhist teachers of black African descent, held at New York’s Union Theological Seminary, two panels of leading Buddhist teachers took questions about what it means to be a black Buddhist in America today.
Op-Ed: His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.
Buddhist teachings are grounded in principles of interdependence, non-separation, and reverence for life, supported by practices of mindfulness and compassion.